4 ms·
The problem with racism is that it works - populations that act preferentially towards their own have an advantage over those that do not: http://jasss.soc.surr
by deogeo 8y ago
The problem with racism is that it works - populations that act preferentially towards their own have an advantage over those that do not: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/7.html.bak http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/7.html.bak
- hannasanarion 8y agoOnly as long as "us" is defined racially, which is itself racist.
- deogeo 8y agoYou are free to define 'us' any way you wish - it will not eliminate the advantage of races that define it to their benefit. Unless you believe other races have left racism behind them.
- hannasanarion 8y agoRaces don't exist.
- chrisco255 8y agoThat paper does an excellent job of describing what I usually refer to as tribalism.
- waterhouse 8y agoInteresting. I note the simulation doesn't have repeated interactions between individuals with memory... Yes, it acknowledges this. "Importantly, our decision to study a one-shot PD framework, where agents have no memory of previous interactions, significantly reduces the cognitive assumptions placed on our agents. A number of simulations have demonstrated how cooperation may emerge in an iterated Prisoner's Dilemma framework, where agents remember the outcomes of previous interactions (Axelrod 1997; Fogel 1993; Sandholm & Crites 1996). We opted for Hammond and Axelrod's (2006) memoryless model because we are interested in ethnocentrism in its most elemental form." You need memory to implement tit for tat, which is the classical case of something like moral behavior evolving spontaneously.